As far as I can tell, there is no thread here to display useful scientific resources on the web. So, following in the vein of the math forum, this thread is for the posting of the above scientific resources. I'm a physics major, so these sites are the ones I know. Other science majors are welcome to post their own fields too. Let me get this thread started:Edit: Planning on consolidating all the given websites into one post for ease of browsing. I'll also try to categorize the sites depending on their field.

The standby, NCBI : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/. This is the home of: Pubmed : the journal search tool entrez : an excellent nucleotide database, want to know the sequence of a gene? Find it here. BLAST : nucleotide sequence comparison tools. Proteins, too. How similar is this gene to this one? Is there an analog of human gene x in dogs? OMIM : mendelian inheritance in man. What does BRCA1 actually do to me? What genes increase my risk of heart disease? Find out here. TaxBrowser : taxonomy database. Browse through the whole freakin' tree. Structure : 3D structures of various proteins ....and a ton more stuff. It's a goldmine.

To note on Pubmed: You can output searches to an RSS feed. I love this. I have all my standard searches set up that way, so the current state of my field is staring me in the face as my homepage whenever I open my browser.

There is also Pubmed central. It's part of NCBI, but it deserves its own link, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/. Many journals now put copies here, and anyone who does NIH funded research now has to copy all papers here. And it's public access. Fantastic resource.

BRENDA http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/ Fantastic resource for biochemists. Lists out damn near everything by standard numerical classification. Gives all the info you could want, from inhibitors, affinities for substrates, expression patterns, species differences, the works. I love this one.

Google scholar : I'm sure you all know about this one, but for some searches, it's even better than pubmed. Especially older stuff. When looking for an older (per-1980) paper, you have a better chance of finding an electronic copy of the actual paper through Google scholar than you do through Pubmed.

I also like Highwire Press: http://www.highwire.org(note the .org) I have the best chance at finding full text free articles there if you don't have a university account OR if you are too lazy to login through the school.

http://viperdb.scripps.edu/ <- Virus database, I don't study virus but I still think it is awesome. Then again, my friend Jack Johnson is head of virology at Scripps so I am perhaps a bit biased. Nonetheless, an excellent virus database.

If you're looking for something a little less serious, I've always loved the Periodic Table Of Videos. It's done by the University of Nottingham and it's a really fascinating way to kill some time (and maybe even learn something!)

pastrybot wrote:If you're looking for something a little less serious, I've always loved the Periodic Table Of Videos. It's done by the University of Nottingham and it's a really fascinating way to kill some time (and maybe even learn something!)

Um just a note, you might want to check past posts people, or we're going to have like 50 links to PTV...

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. - Salvor Hardin, From Isaac Asimov's "Foundation".

Theodore Gray's Periodic Table is a pretty good site. They have lots of interesting tidbits for each of the different elements, including where it can be found. It also has pretty thorough technical data.

Before you shoot me down for not posting a 100% science site, skim through a few pages of Cocktail Party Physics to discover some of the MOST AWESOMENEST science writing out there. The contributors all seem to have professions in some sort of science or other, and they include lots of great links and videos in their posts. Other neat science blogs are listed in the sidebar.

It's not a real website about science, but VERY useful if you want to observe stars and costellations by yourself.You can find the geographical coordinations of your town/place, and then know what stars will be visible at night.

"What would humans be without love?""Rare".-- Winners never talk about glorious victories, because they're the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterward.

http://www.youtube.com/edu - videos from some of the best universities in the world. Many are general interest rather than academic, but MIT and Stanford have quite a few playlists containing the lectures for entire classes. (Most of the MIT ones seem to be associated with courses from the already mentioned OpenCourseware.)

Biology:www.twiv.tv - 'This week in Virology', lots of interesting netcasts about viruses, vaccines, prions. Brilliant for when you're doing some boring data processing that requires computer but so little brain that you start to go crazy.

Great site. It's sort of a science news site. A lot of interesting articles about nanotechnology and computer science, and pretty much everything else too. You can create a user profile so you can favorite articles, and some other handy stuff too. I reckon this site belongs under "General".